Spontaneous Rupture of the Amyloid Spleen in a Case of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 428-431

  Tanno, Sachie ^a   Ohsaki, Yoshinobu ^a   Osanai, Shinobu ^a   Akiba, Yuji ^a   Takeuchi, Toshiharu ^a   Nishigaki, Yutaka ^a   Ide, Hiroshi ^a   Nakano, Hitoshi ^a   Miyokawa, Naoyuki ^a   Kikuchi, Kenjiro ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Postmortem examination; Secondary amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RUPTURE; SPLEEN;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035345251     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.428     Document Type: Article

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